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    Wearing a Computer Is Good for You

    Mobile health devices and software could change medicine profoundly, allowing people to continuously monitor vital signs and better track and modify behavior. That's important because chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes are on the rise. "We...

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    In mobile health, follow the money, not the hype

    According to Fox, about 10 percent of U.S. adults who have cell phones – and nearly every adult in the country has one these days – had registered to use a mobile health app, a number nearly unchanged from a year ago. Many, Fox told the Sun, used ...

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    Hopkins researchers aim to uncover which mobile health applications work

    The number of iPads and other tablets in the hands of consumers doubled over the holiday season, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project.

    Using health apps may also be part of a natural progression, said Susannah Fox, associat...

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    Study: Under half of app downloaders have ever paid for one

    It’s the kind of news that may have some app developers questioning their vocation, with the results of a recent survey showing that among those who own a mobile device and have downloaded apps, less than half have actually shelled out any money f...

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    Appetite for phone apps nearly doubled, reflects increasing trend toward mobile

    The share of adult cell phone owners who have downloaded an app to their phone nearly doubled in the past two years – rising from 22% in September 2009 to 38% in August 2011 – according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & Ameri...

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    Apps are multiplying, but use is lagging

    There are apps for learning Russian, touching up photos, playing Angry Birds, finding pizza, and myriad other activities.

    But so far, only about half of U.S. adults with cellphones have apps on their phones, and only about one in four c...

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